Cristobal Catalan

Again finding him on videoart.net.

This is the second time that i have been drawn to click on his work known as "Venlafaxine Hydrochloride"


 

 (sinppit of the 1.27 min film)

Once you understand that the name "Venlafaxine Hydrochloride" is taken from a type of anti depressant drug, the footage Catalan uses makes much more sense in it's meaning. On the other hand it makes me feel utterly uncomfortable and confused in some way, it being the blurred/hyper real images or the soundtrack I'm not sure, but i think it really is a great work. 

this is the synopsis that accompanied it. 
"Perceptions of self spontaneously evolve into future ongoing states of equilibrium, but they do not spontaneously evolve away from such equilibriums. Processes of existence appear to be temporally “directed” in some sense. The nature of this directedness raises many questions about the macroscopics of time and space. Taking the name of an anti-depressant medication, this piece chronicles meta-physical visualisations of such states of equilibrium pertaining to perceptions of self." 


I would like to in my work show an issue or something close that i am interested in, like Catalan.



Refrences: 
videoart.net (2009) Cristobal Catalan;Venlafaxine Hydrochloride http://www.videoart.net/home/Artists/VideoPage.cfm?Artist_ID=5204&ArtWork_ID=5011&Player_ID=10#desc [accessed 23/4/2011]